Sunday, November 27, 2011

A funny thing happened on the way to Lost and Found Records.....

When I went to pick up a vinyl pressing of Alice Cooper's new album "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" in hopes of having Dick Wagner to sign it on a planned road trip to Michigan (a later blog post will follow) the store owner Maria asked if I want to talk to a reporter about some of my "Tales of the road" and I didn't think it would be a big deal so I said I'll talk to her. I passed on my phone number (or I called her....can't remember which) and a few days later I met Allison Rupp at Panera Bread in West Knoxville and basically shot the shit with her for about an hour I felt it went pretty good but I was also a bit nervous that I may have revealed too much about myself as I did go into some detail about my "Bootlegging" past/present and with my apprehension of being true to myself after Jason left Metallica in 2000 as I did feel like I was being pulled on both sides but it was for naught as Allison did an EXCELLENT job of telling "my story" without putting too much focus on just me.

Below is a link for the article....
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/nov/26/knoxvillians-passionately-follow-their-favorite/

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Ticket Stub Collection.....

By no means is this a complete album of my ticket stubs as I am not very organized but it gives you a very good ideal of the many shows I have attended (and in the case of many of the shows after Halloween 1985 also was taped by me too!)...... there will be more to be added as time passes by. At the moment I only have the free account so I do not know what my limitations are as to what is visible to the general public as I can only see the last 200 images. I have no problem with sharing them as long as credit is given when due. I hope to have a companion set in chronological order in the future. As it goes with some shows where I was on "The Guest List" there is no stub to scan as it was sometimes nothing more as a stamp on the back of my hand so the complete list will never be known.

Explore at your own leisure!

Jerry aka "The Govner" 

The Govner's Flickr Account